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Shortlisted for The Women’s Prize • Named a Most Anticipated Book by
Electric Literature
,
Publishers Weekly
, The BBC,
Daily Mail
(London), and more
“Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed...glinting with read-out-loud sentences. A joy of a debut novel by the real deal.” —David Mitchell
“Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant...as funny as it is moving, as perceptive as it is pithy.” —
The Guardian
A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York City trying to find deeper meaning by quietly giving away her belongings.
When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up in jail, the family’s upper-class veneer is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a quest to restore the family name to its former glory, but what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow?
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran to a splintered 2000s,
The Persians
upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, art, and how to find yourself and each other when your country is lost. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd,
is a deeply moving reinvention of the American family saga.
Electric Literature
,
Publishers Weekly
, The BBC,
Daily Mail
(London), and more
“Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed...glinting with read-out-loud sentences. A joy of a debut novel by the real deal.” —David Mitchell
“Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant...as funny as it is moving, as perceptive as it is pithy.” —
The Guardian
A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York City trying to find deeper meaning by quietly giving away her belongings.
When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up in jail, the family’s upper-class veneer is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a quest to restore the family name to its former glory, but what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow?
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran to a splintered 2000s,
The Persians
upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, art, and how to find yourself and each other when your country is lost. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd,
is a deeply moving reinvention of the American family saga.
Shortlisted for The Women’s Prize • Named a Most Anticipated Book by
Electric Literature
,
Publishers Weekly
, The BBC,
Daily Mail
(London), and more
“Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed...glinting with read-out-loud sentences. A joy of a debut novel by the real deal.” —David Mitchell
“Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant...as funny as it is moving, as perceptive as it is pithy.” —
The Guardian
A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York City trying to find deeper meaning by quietly giving away her belongings.
When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up in jail, the family’s upper-class veneer is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a quest to restore the family name to its former glory, but what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow?
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran to a splintered 2000s,
The Persians
upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, art, and how to find yourself and each other when your country is lost. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd,
is a deeply moving reinvention of the American family saga.
Electric Literature
,
Publishers Weekly
, The BBC,
Daily Mail
(London), and more
“Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed...glinting with read-out-loud sentences. A joy of a debut novel by the real deal.” —David Mitchell
“Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant...as funny as it is moving, as perceptive as it is pithy.” —
The Guardian
A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York City trying to find deeper meaning by quietly giving away her belongings.
When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up in jail, the family’s upper-class veneer is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a quest to restore the family name to its former glory, but what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow?
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran to a splintered 2000s,
The Persians
upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, art, and how to find yourself and each other when your country is lost. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd,
is a deeply moving reinvention of the American family saga.
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